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Clean sweep. Kenny Colon, a junior majoring in international relations, helps clean Western Avenue along with fellow Latino Business Student Assocation students. About 20 students from LBSA showed up for the event.
Students help clean Western Avenue
About 20 students from USC help out at the ‘What’s Goin’ On ’ event Saturday.
By JACQUELINE LEE
Staff Writer
Sisters Mariana Sotelo, 13, and Daniela Sotelo, 11, were among many elementary school students in southwest Los Angeles who convinced their parents to wake up early Saturday morning and join them in beautifying the Western Avenue area of their neighborhood.
The family, armed with plastic bags and brooms, picked up all the litter in its path; the youngest of the Sotelo clan trailed along, dragging a shovel twice the size of his 1-year-old body.
Stationed up and down the 3900 block of Western Avenue were similar groups of volunteers.
About 200 people attended the “What’s Goin’ On?” event hosted by the Reclaiming Western Coalition to raise awareness of littering,
I see Cleanup, page 10 I
INDEX
R&B singer Al Green performs at the opening of the Galen Center Saturday night. 7
CNN decision to air Iraqi sniper video does nothing to hurt America. 4
News Digest.......2 Lifestyle..............7
Upcoming..........2 Classifieds.......12
Opinions.............4 Sports...............16
WEATHER
Today: Mostly sunny. High 85, low 60.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 80, low 60.
Man gets life for killing USC student
By COURTNEY WILLIS
Staff Writer
A paraplegic man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for killing a USC student in 2004, the Associated Press reported.
Angel Cruz was convicted of the murder of Max Hazlett, a junior majoring in Chinese language and economics, after he was found shot twice in the chest less than a half of a mile from his Promenade Towers apartment
During the trial, an L.A. deputy district attorney said it was a robbery that had gone bad.
Hazlett was dropped off at a Chevron gas station around 2 a.m. by his friend Jonathan Pong after a night out at Ivar, a club in Hollywood. The gas station, located at Washington Boulevard and Figueroa Street, is about two miles from his apartment at 2nd and Figueroa streets.
Friends said Hazlett insisted on walking home while looking for an open liquor store.
He later accepted a free ride from Cruz, The Honolulu Advertiser reported.
Cruz’s parents admitted to helping their son dump the body in a video that was shown to jurors. The defense attorney asked for a mistrial, citing prejudicial evidence, but the judge denied the request, The Honolulu Advertiser reported.
The parents were sentenced to several months in jail for being accessories to the crime after the fact.
Cruz’s arrest in spring 2005 came nearly a year after Hazlett’s death.
www.dailytrojan.com
October 23, 2006
Vol. CLIX, No. 43
INSIDE
Trojans hold off Bruins in overtime, beating UCLA, 9-8.
Man killed near campus
Fraternity aids homeless on Skid Row
By JEREMY BEECHER
Staff Writer
A local man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon while riding his bike on Ellendale Place, police said.
The victim did not have any connection to USC, said Sgt. Darryl Grayson of Los Angeles Police Department’s Southwest Division.
Police have no suspects or motive in the killing.
The victim was riding his bike south on Ellendale Place tdward Adams Boulevard around 4 p.m. when a car pulled up alongside him at the intersection of Ellendale and 24th Street.
An attacker then lowered the car’s window and shot the bicyclist one or more times from inside the vehicle, Grayson said.
The victim continued biking toward Adams
Boulevard after being shot but collapsed onto the street after pedaling a short distance, Grayson said.
Paramedics transported him to California Hospital Medical Center downtown, where he was pronounced dead.
After killing the biker, the shooter’s car drove east on 24th Street away from the intersection, Grayson said.
USC’s Department of Public Safety was “aware” of the situation and monitored police frequencies, but “didn’t really respond” since LAPD was handling the situation, said a DPS officer who declined to be identified.
The officer said DPS was initially concerned that the victim might have been a USC student.
County morgue and hospital officials would not identify the victim pending notification of his next of kin.
Lambda Theta Phi fraternity members hand out food to the homeless Saturday.
By LAUREN PEREZ
Staff Writer
The USC chapter of the Lambda Theta Phi fraternity cooked and distributed 1,000 breakfast burritos and water bottles to residents of Skid Row Saturday morning.
The program, “Feed the Less Fortunate,” was established in 2002. The fraternity
handed out 250 burritos its first year and continues to expand every year.
Daniel Guzman and Luis Barrios, founders of the program, said they started the program to show fellow students what goes on beyond campus.
“We wanted to get our hands dirty and serve the people,” said Barrios, a fifth-year architecture student.
“It allows me to see that these are people, not just a group of vagrants,” said Guzman, a USC alumnus and graduate student at Cal State University, Los Angeles studying social work.
Lambda Theta Phi holds the program
every semester. This semester they partnered with Ladies Actively Taking Initiative Through: Networking, Academics, and Social Justice, a community service organization, and other fraternity chapters from state schools across Southern California.
Several Hispanic organizations from the Multicultural Greek Council, Latino Student Assembly and El Centro Chicano donated water bottles, money and supplies.
Preparation
The volunteers met early Saturday morning on the corner of Sixth Street and I see Homeless, page 10 I

Clean sweep. Kenny Colon, a junior majoring in international relations, helps clean Western Avenue along with fellow Latino Business Student Assocation students. About 20 students from LBSA showed up for the event.
Students help clean Western Avenue
About 20 students from USC help out at the ‘What’s Goin’ On ’ event Saturday.
By JACQUELINE LEE
Staff Writer
Sisters Mariana Sotelo, 13, and Daniela Sotelo, 11, were among many elementary school students in southwest Los Angeles who convinced their parents to wake up early Saturday morning and join them in beautifying the Western Avenue area of their neighborhood.
The family, armed with plastic bags and brooms, picked up all the litter in its path; the youngest of the Sotelo clan trailed along, dragging a shovel twice the size of his 1-year-old body.
Stationed up and down the 3900 block of Western Avenue were similar groups of volunteers.
About 200 people attended the “What’s Goin’ On?” event hosted by the Reclaiming Western Coalition to raise awareness of littering,
I see Cleanup, page 10 I
INDEX
R&B singer Al Green performs at the opening of the Galen Center Saturday night. 7
CNN decision to air Iraqi sniper video does nothing to hurt America. 4
News Digest.......2 Lifestyle..............7
Upcoming..........2 Classifieds.......12
Opinions.............4 Sports...............16
WEATHER
Today: Mostly sunny. High 85, low 60.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 80, low 60.
Man gets life for killing USC student
By COURTNEY WILLIS
Staff Writer
A paraplegic man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for killing a USC student in 2004, the Associated Press reported.
Angel Cruz was convicted of the murder of Max Hazlett, a junior majoring in Chinese language and economics, after he was found shot twice in the chest less than a half of a mile from his Promenade Towers apartment
During the trial, an L.A. deputy district attorney said it was a robbery that had gone bad.
Hazlett was dropped off at a Chevron gas station around 2 a.m. by his friend Jonathan Pong after a night out at Ivar, a club in Hollywood. The gas station, located at Washington Boulevard and Figueroa Street, is about two miles from his apartment at 2nd and Figueroa streets.
Friends said Hazlett insisted on walking home while looking for an open liquor store.
He later accepted a free ride from Cruz, The Honolulu Advertiser reported.
Cruz’s parents admitted to helping their son dump the body in a video that was shown to jurors. The defense attorney asked for a mistrial, citing prejudicial evidence, but the judge denied the request, The Honolulu Advertiser reported.
The parents were sentenced to several months in jail for being accessories to the crime after the fact.
Cruz’s arrest in spring 2005 came nearly a year after Hazlett’s death.
www.dailytrojan.com
October 23, 2006
Vol. CLIX, No. 43
INSIDE
Trojans hold off Bruins in overtime, beating UCLA, 9-8.
Man killed near campus
Fraternity aids homeless on Skid Row
By JEREMY BEECHER
Staff Writer
A local man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon while riding his bike on Ellendale Place, police said.
The victim did not have any connection to USC, said Sgt. Darryl Grayson of Los Angeles Police Department’s Southwest Division.
Police have no suspects or motive in the killing.
The victim was riding his bike south on Ellendale Place tdward Adams Boulevard around 4 p.m. when a car pulled up alongside him at the intersection of Ellendale and 24th Street.
An attacker then lowered the car’s window and shot the bicyclist one or more times from inside the vehicle, Grayson said.
The victim continued biking toward Adams
Boulevard after being shot but collapsed onto the street after pedaling a short distance, Grayson said.
Paramedics transported him to California Hospital Medical Center downtown, where he was pronounced dead.
After killing the biker, the shooter’s car drove east on 24th Street away from the intersection, Grayson said.
USC’s Department of Public Safety was “aware” of the situation and monitored police frequencies, but “didn’t really respond” since LAPD was handling the situation, said a DPS officer who declined to be identified.
The officer said DPS was initially concerned that the victim might have been a USC student.
County morgue and hospital officials would not identify the victim pending notification of his next of kin.
Lambda Theta Phi fraternity members hand out food to the homeless Saturday.
By LAUREN PEREZ
Staff Writer
The USC chapter of the Lambda Theta Phi fraternity cooked and distributed 1,000 breakfast burritos and water bottles to residents of Skid Row Saturday morning.
The program, “Feed the Less Fortunate,” was established in 2002. The fraternity
handed out 250 burritos its first year and continues to expand every year.
Daniel Guzman and Luis Barrios, founders of the program, said they started the program to show fellow students what goes on beyond campus.
“We wanted to get our hands dirty and serve the people,” said Barrios, a fifth-year architecture student.
“It allows me to see that these are people, not just a group of vagrants,” said Guzman, a USC alumnus and graduate student at Cal State University, Los Angeles studying social work.
Lambda Theta Phi holds the program
every semester. This semester they partnered with Ladies Actively Taking Initiative Through: Networking, Academics, and Social Justice, a community service organization, and other fraternity chapters from state schools across Southern California.
Several Hispanic organizations from the Multicultural Greek Council, Latino Student Assembly and El Centro Chicano donated water bottles, money and supplies.
Preparation
The volunteers met early Saturday morning on the corner of Sixth Street and I see Homeless, page 10 I